featuring: a note on how surreal the granular nature of politics sometimes is, an appeal to consider combining silvopasture and fruit bats (infographic here), the slightly odd discordancy in Frederick Douglas's views of photography, a brief paean to KD's efforts in Game 5 of the finals, and more. 

A Zen Buddhist ceremony recorded in 1959.

Here's an album that's absolutely worth blasting as you make your way through rush hour traffic.

The sketch show "Still Recording" returns with an episode entitled, "Specificity." 

Tracklist:

A quick word on the NBA finals so far. And, if you want to follow a newsletter on basketball, check out Hoops.

I'm giving thought to making this a 'template' of an episode -- that the spot this album occupies on your feeds will change at some point in the future as different layers of paint are added to it.